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Show SPRINGVILLE, TINTIC PLAY HERE FRIDAY Dons, Lions Favored As Nebo Hoop League Opens Friday, Jan. 6 will mark the opening of league competition in the Nebo district basketball warfare, with two games scheduled to be played in the Spring;- r ' I ' I a! t - ' 4 1? i ville gym and the Spanish Fork; gym. Springville will play host to Tintic high of Eureak at 8 p.m. and Spanish will defend its Nebo title with the strong Payson club. Sophomore games will precede the main games. The Springville-Tintic game on the Red Devil floor, should be an interesting battle. Tintic upset the Devils last year at Eureka and Fridays game should see the Red Devils making a successful reversal rever-sal of this. However, a close game is expected. Principal Paul K. Walker announced an-nounced that there will be some 100 reserve seats available for the Friday night game and these tickets tic-kets are now on sale at the high school office-, and will be available also at the door. ! Coach Paul Wilson has been working hard with his greenling .squad all week in order to round out some of the rough spots which have been cropping up during the GLORIOUS END . . . Leon Hart, Notre Dame all-American end, was selected the outstanding outstand-ing football player of the year and awarded the Ileisman memorial trophy for his 1949 feats. pre-season campaign. The Devils have won only a few of their practice prac-tice games, but have been improving im-proving steadily and should come up with their share of the wins although both Payson and Spanish Fork are top favorites for the leaguo honors this year. Devils lose two ... In their final two pre-season game s, the Springville club dropped both contests. They lost to Pleasant Grove 38-36 in an overtime battle on the Viking floor and then went down before the ' strong Provo team Friday night at i Provo 64-38. Quarter scores of the two games follow: ! Springville 1 19 28 34 36 PI. Grove 7 14 22 34 38 Springville 6 15 27 38 Provo 18 33 50 64 i Back in 1916, 65.14 per cent of 1 all the taxes in the country were locallv collected and administer- ! ed. These taxes then totaled 2,- ! 015,000,000. By 1930 local taxes had jumped to $4,879,000,000 but now constituted 45.9 per cent of the over-all burden. Last year, though local taxes amounted to $6,620,000,000 they were only 12.43 per cent of the total bill. State taxes reflected even greater changes. They rose from a mere $36-1,000,000 in 1916 to $6,732,-000,000 $6,732,-000,000 in 1948. Federal changes were still more pronounced. From 1916 to 1948 these taxes increased from $731,000,000 to $39,894,000,-000 $39,894,000,-000 exclusive of $3,457,000,000 in payroll taxes. The respective proportions pro-portions of the total burden changed from 23.27 to 74.93 per cent. As the tax so the government. |